HMMMmmm... A two part quote.
"Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah,Is this true?
Can anyone quote from the bible Jesus' words where He DID claim to be the Messiah?
Does this suffice?
Mark 8:27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Can anyone quote from the bible Jesus' words where He DID claim to be the Messiah?
Indeed we can. Multiple times, in fact.
"He said to them, 'But who do you say that I am?' Simon Peter replied, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.' And Jesus answered him, 'Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. . . . Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ" (Matt.16:15-17,20)
"Again the high priest asked him, 'Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?' And Jesus said, 'I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven'" (Mark 14:61-62).
"The woman said to him, 'I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.' Jesus said to her, 'I who speak to you am he'" (John 4:25-26).
Those are the three I remember off the top of my head. There are also numerous times where someone else declares Jesus to be the Messiah (or the Christ, which is simply the Greek equivalent) and Jesus makes no further comment, and all the times that Jesus declares himself indirectly to be the Messiah when he says that various Old Testament scriptures are referring to himself, and all the apostolic authors who declare him to be Christ after the fact, as it were. However, he does refer to himself as the Messiah directly, at least those three times.